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l MANUFACTURE OF MATCHES. No. 282,326. Patented July 31. 1883.

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MANUFACTURE OF MATCHES.

SPECIFICATION formingpart Of LettersPatent No. 282,326, dated July l,1883.

i I Application filed May 24, 1883. (Nomode1.)

.To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, GUSTAV L. JAEGER, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have inventednew and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Matches, of whichthefollowing is a specification.

of the matches to be produced, and finally manufacture of matches.

cutting these strips transversely to form the matches. In theaccompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a longitudinal verticalsection of the apparatus which may be used in carrying out my invention.Fig. 2 is a transverse section in the plane w m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is aplan of the web after the lighting compound has been applied. Fig. 4 isa plan of a finished match.

Similarletters indicate corresponding parts.

In the drawings, the letter A designates a,

roll of paper, pasteboard, straw-board, veneer, or other equivalentmaterial suitable for the Fromthis roll the web is drawn off and drawnthrough an apparatus for applying on its surface ridges of a suitablelighting compound in the direction of the length of'the web. In theexample shown in the drawings, this apparatus consists of a trough, B,which contains the lighting compound in a melted or semi-fluid condition, a feed-roller, O, which dips into the trough, a printing-roller,D, for transferring the lighting compound from the feed-roller to theweb, and a roller, E, for keeping the web in contact with the printing-ro11er. This printing-roller is formed with a series of circularridges, cm, Fig. 2, the distances between which correspond to the lengthof the matches to be produced. By the action of the printing-roller,therefore, the lighting compound is transferred to the web in continuousstreaks compound on the same have become partially dry. For the purposeof drying the web an apparatus may be used such as is commonly employedfor drying paper-hangings; After the lighting compound has becomepartially dry, the web is cut into strips, each of which has a streak oflighting compound at or near one of its edges, and finally these stripsare cut transversely to form matches of the form shown in Fig. 4..

- Great care must be taken in drying the web,

so as to keep the lighting compound at the proper consistency forcutting, for if the lighting compound is too dry it i cannot be outwithout running the risk of an explosion, and

if it is not dry enough the pellets on the matches will not be uniform;but if the lighting compound has been dried to the proper consistenceand the strips of the web are cut up into matches, a portion of thelighting compound is drawn down over the edges of .the

matchsticks during the operation of cutting, and by these means thematch burns readily if the lighting compound is ignited by friction.

The lighting compound which I use is such as commonly used in themanufacture of fric- 8 5 tion-matches.

Instead of cutting the web into strips after the lighting compound hasbeen applied, the strip cutting operation may be performed first, andthen the lighting compound can be 0 applied on one or both sides of thestrips in continuous streaks near one of their edges, and after thesestreaks have'been partially dried the strips are cut up into matches. Ifthe web is already of the required width,no strip- .95

cutting operation is required.

WVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'Ihcprocess ofmanufacturingmatches,which In testimony whereof I havehereunto set consists in applying to a Web of wood, paper, my hand andseal in the presence of two subor other suitable material continuousstreaks scribing witnesses. or ridges of lighting compound in the direc-GUSTAV L. JAEGER. [L s] tion of the length of the web, then partially\Vitnesses: drying these streaks of lighting compound on W. HAUFF, theweb, and then cutting the web into matches. E. F. KAs'rENHUnER.

